Film Reviews

8050 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 20/09/2025. 737 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Handling the Undead by Thea Hvistendahl

26/01/2024

Thea Hvistendahl’s debut feature boasts a peculiar, eerie atmosphere and demonstrates her solid directing skills, but its last third destroys all the promise shown in the first two  

Håndtering av udøde

Håndtering av udøde

Brief History of a Family by Jianjie Lin

24/01/2024

Everybody’s looking for something in the meticulously realised debut feature by Chinese director Jianjie Lin  

Brief History of a Family

Brief History of a Family

Dieci minuti by Maria Sole Tognazzi

24/01/2024

Co-written with Francesca Archibugi, Maria Sole Tognazzi’s new movie takes a sensitive and understanding approach to tell the tale of a woman’s existential crisis and subsequent journey of rebirth  

Dieci minuti

Dieci minuti

Once We Were Pitmen by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek

24/01/2024

Christian Johannes Koch and Jonas Matuschek’s film homes in on the harsh but humanity-filled daily life of a group of miners who are about to lose their jobs  

Wir waren Kumpel

Wir waren Kumpel

Burning Fire by Michael Karrer

24/01/2024

Michael Karrer’s debut feature film confronts us with a reality which we’re not able to see, overwhelmed as we are by the frenzy of everyday life  

Füür brännt

Füür brännt

My Swiss Army by Luka Popadić

24/01/2024

Luka Popadić’s debut feature film follows three Swiss officers of Serbian, Sri Lankan and Tunisian origin wrestling with a dual identity which makes them unique  

Echte Schweizer

Echte Schweizer

Kidnapping Inc. by Bruno Mourral

24/01/2024

Haitian director Bruno Mourral's first feature is a hyper-kinetic comedy-thriller that follows two hapless anti-heroes in a story that also touches upon political and social issues  

Kidnapping Inc.

Kidnapping Inc.

Girls Will Be Girls by Shuchi Talati

24/01/2024

Debuting director Shuchi Talati explores the intricacies of female adolescence against a backdrop of male-dominated societal norms  

Girls Will Be Girls

Girls Will Be Girls

In the Land of Brothers by Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi

23/01/2024

The debut feature from Iranian filmmakers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi skilfully weaves together an edifying fiction in three parts, about Afghan refugees in dramatic circumstances  

In the Land of Brothers

In the Land of Brothers

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez

23/01/2024

Mid-century American jazz soundtracks anti-colonial struggles in Johan Grimonprez’s study of the Congo Crisis and Patrice Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination  

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

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